Father Bill Bausch's homilies are always outstanding. He brings a deep pastoral presence and much thought and preparation to each of them. This has never been more evident than here in this book of funeral homilies.

When the words great homily come to mind, the name Bill Bausch inevitably pops up.

Bausch covers 50 of these saints here in this beautifully written anthology.

"...an indispensible resource for homilists"-- Cover back.

"The more I listen to people, the more I lecture, the more I realize how wide is the gap between the people's understanding of the Church and the Church's historical realities." [Introduction] The author seeks to close this gap by ...

Since publication in 1984 of his seminal book on homiletics,

Enter the world of Dorothy, the cowardly lion, the tin man, and the scarecrow, and re-discover the spiritual journey in their company. Full of stories and experiences that reveal the roads that lead to prayer.

Here in this landmark work, which he insists is his last, his goal is to help readers see the centrality of stories, to read and hear Scripture as story and not as history, and to learn to enrich and expand their lives by looking at the ...